One thing that worries me about AI-generated code is that if there's an obscure bug that pops up later, there's no engineer to think "ok hang on, I remember something strange happening when I first wrote that code... let me have a look." Instead, there are only engineers who reviewed the code, which is of course a lot different from writing it.
CEO of company with AI product says, in earnings call, that nontrivial amount of code is generated by AI..<p>Do people think an earnings call is some kind of secret meeting where the marketing stops?
PDF of Earnings (31 points) <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41988811">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41988811</a><p>Coverage from NYT (11 points) <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41989256">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41989256</a><p>Coverage from Verge (7 points) <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41989674">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41989674</a><p>Coverage from CNBC (2 points) <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41989727">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41989727</a>
When function names autocomplete in my IDE, is AI writing my code?<p>When vim shows me where a matching paren/bracket goes, is that AI that put them there?<p>When we use code validators like lint or Purify, is that AI code review from the 1980s?
It sounds like a boastful lie for stock reasons, but if not, the AI overlords may decide to write algorithms creating effectively a social credit service and not tell any humans.
Because saying "more than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by free crowdsourcing from internet scraping" doesn't roll off the tongue as easily ;)
With so many projects abandoned, is code speed really an issue for google?<p>Has there been any novel or interesting code written or is this code block completion that saved people keystrokes?
Google is a big company which buys other companies to grow.<p>Does this AI actually improve their M&A somehow? Does it allow them to AI-write new software instead of buying it?<p>I don't get it.